Attended Talks Note: These talks were attended as part of independent study. Summaries and notes represent an in-progress understanding of the material.
2026
Quemoy as Method: A Front-line Island on a New Front-line
Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Global Taiwan Studies Initiative
Statecraft: Canadian Prime Ministers and Their Cabinets
Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto
Book Talk Series
2025
Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Anatomy of Japan's Geostrategy
Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Japan Seminar Series
2024
Hume in Two Minds
Dept. of Philosophy, York University
Philosophy Speaker Series
How Temptation Keeps Us Moral
Dept. of Philosophy, York University
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
2023
Does Calibration Mean What They Say It Means; Or, The Reference Class Problem Rises Again
Dept. of Philosophy, York University
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
Sexual Selection, Female Choice, and Cognitive Adaptation in a Food-Caching Bird
Dept. of Philosophy, York University
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
Discovering Shared Knowledge of Human Lexical Creativity
Socially Induced Brain Plasticity and Behavioural Reprogramming in Ants
Very interesting study on plasticity of ants, with great potential medical applications. The lecturer underwent a labourious process to work with a rather understudied species. Hopefully the aims of establishing it as a model organism will be achieved sooner rather than later.
Anthropogeny
Global Health Equity & Covid-19: Where Do We Go From Here?
Support for Ukraine in the Global South
Geopolitical Turmoil and its Implications for the Technology Landscape
The Story of My Life
Royal Society, Croonian Price Lecture 2023
Writing Others, Reading Self: An Introduction to Antiracist and Translingual Writing
Too Important to Stop Worrying: The Task of Defining Life as a Journey, Not a Destination
University of Toronto, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology (IHPST)
Dr. Ruiz-Mirazo's discussion type lecture had a great effect upon my thinking. Great care was taken to disseminate ideas on philosophy of sicence from a novel position, that of astrobiology among others, which helped clarify the epistemic and ontological assumptions those in the life sciences often make. Perhaps those in the philosophical sciences take similar assumtions for granted, at least that was the impression I received from the discussion, though my background is not in that field.
Mathematical Modeling of Epidemics: Are We Confronting of Amplifying Health Inequalities?
Taking a Neuroscientific-Philosophical Approach in Studying Free Will and Consciousness
2022
Encapsulated Failures
The Great Plagiarism Mystery: How To Be Original in a World Where Everything's Already Been Said
Eloquent Responses: An Interpretation of Some Great Works of Ancient Egyptian Philosophy
Dept. of Philosophy, York University
Philosophy Speaker Series
A great introduction to Near East/African philosophy, with an interesting analogy made by the lecturer to contemporary democracy.
Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, & the Racialization of US Power in Micronesia, 1941-1963
An interesting lesson on the devastating effects of nuclear testing through a case study on Marshall Islands.
Consciousness and Agency After Split-Brain Surgery